Best Of

For me, it's Quicksilver Vs Nefaria, for questing (answer would be different, for BGs)

Quicksilver at Sig 1 has astonishing utility - if you like him, and you're okay with his double-hit animations, he's a phenomenal champion:

Counters Evade

Counters Unstoppable

Counters Miss

Can parry projectiles

Can auto-evade on intercepts, or when stunned.

Can easily reverse Passive Power Gain with Wither

Good red number damage with Trauma

Huge burst damage with Whiplash.

But Nefaria can do a lot of similar things, too. Again, if you like him and you're good at maximising his Parry-Evade, he's a phenomenal champion, too:

Can almost completely prevent passive Power Gain (and steal it for himself)

Can almost completely prevent regeneration (and at high Sig level, steal it for himself)

Can Evade on Parry, even if the opponent is Unblockable

Huge damage potential on hit, and via Incinerates

Can recover a lot of health on SP1

Has non-contact attacks during his Overload phase

Immune to Bleed

Immune to Power Steal

Functionally almost-immune to Shock and Incinerate

Huge resistance to all Energy and Degeneration damage.

Play around with the two of them, and see who you prefer. Nefaria definitely wants high Sig for his full utility, whereas Quicksilver gets 99% of his at sig1. But either is a great choice.

Aaaaaaand it's over. Final score:  7,362,681,740 

Except not exactly. For those unaware, the banquet event was extended four days. The reason is there was/is a bug that is preventing some players from claiming some milestones in things like the alliance event, which contain SBCs. This means those players cannot open all their crystals, and cannot score all their points. The banquet was extended to allow that bug to be fixed, those players to claim those crystals, and then open them like they would normally.

This does not in any meaningful way alter the rank rewards for banquet. You can no longer buy crystals with units. You can no longer buy crystals with cash. And by the way, the reason the sales ended early is because think of the problems that would ensue if Kabam allowed players to buy crystals right up to when the banquet ends and then when the banquet ends they couldn't open those crystals for the points. That would be ugly - and stuff like that has happened in the past. Thus the safeguard of not selling something right up to the moment it no longer works.

So all the points we score from here on out will either come from a) players affected by the bug, or b) really forgetful players who forgot to open their crystals on time, and will now have an extra couple of days to do so. Honestly, I'm kinda curious how many of those players exist, and how much points continue to trickle in over the next few days.

This will delay knowing how the ranks turned out, because Kabam is not going to send out rank rewards until the dust settles on all the players affected by the bug and give them a chance to get their last few crystals in. For some players this is not an insignificant number of crystals, but even one crystal can sometimes make the difference between placing in one bracket or another. I've heard of arena grinders missing the featured champ by literally a single arena round of points. You think you've had bad luck in this game, even I would nap my phone in half and howl at the moon over that one.

I just woke up and checked on this first, so I'm still decaffeinated and blurry eyed. I'll be back to catch up on the thread in a bit. And congratulations everyone. Not only did we beat last year, not only did we smash through the initial stretch goals, not only did we beat my early predictions, we beat Kabam's predictions for how high we would go. I'll say more about that next time.

For questing, you've got great options. To be honest, it's personal preference:

Nefaria is great, but would be better Awakened

Hulk has crazy damage, and can be fun if you enjoy beating up stunned opponents.

Lizard has underrated utility and damage; and really benefits from the Spidey-2099 relic - if you've got one, select the Accelerated Dexterity rune and he starts going Unstoppable/Unblockable all the time. He's a definite contender.

Quicksilver has some of the most insane utility for questing - can handle all kinds of situations.

DShulk - great damage and control of the match. Another top contender.

really hoped that they would have included these new Minions among the Bonus Points for the special 1*/2* Arena going on now.

But they didn’t.

Like 1* = 2000

Minion = 1000

other 2* = 500

Kabam is trying to fix an issue with players unable to claim milestone rewards.

Kabam added 4 days to fix some bugs so players can get their rewards, sales of banquet crystals will still end

What do they need to sort out? Spending is one thing cheaters don't participate in this game….

Now as far as coliseum alliance rank rewards, that will take a while.

Yes it did; but no it didn't...

How is it a money grab if sales aren’t being extended and people can only open what they haven’t been able to due to bugs?

As soon as I saw the first appearance crystal I knew that despite the 84% chance of me not getting a 2nd shiny Jane Foster that there was a 100% chance that I would get another shiny Jane Forster which is exactly what happened. I hope I hit top 2600 so I can actually pick the shiny champ I want. If it hit 1% I’ll most certainly get a 3rd shiny Jane Foster from the rank rewards